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Live coverage of the first of this season's NatWest Trophy semi-finals. Today, Essex take on Glamorgan at Chelmsford, with the victors booking a place in the final against the winners of the Warwickshire v Sussex match, to be played tomorrow, with live coverage from 10.25am.

An unbeaten 89 by England vice captain Nasser Hussain, helped guide Essex to their three-wicket win over Nottinghamshire in the quarter-final, while Glamorgan made it to this stage via their one-wicket defeat of Yorkshire. For the winning semi-finalists there is the prize of a place in the final of this 60-over-a-side contest at Lord's on 6 September.

Contributors

Producer:
Paul Davies
Producer:
Alan Griffiths
Editor:
Philip Bernie

Eleventh in a 13-part series of investigative programmes from the BBC regions.

In December 1943, Lance Corporal Bill Smith died as a prisoner of the Japanese during the Second World War. He left behind a diary which disappeared at the end of the war, describing the suffering and death around him, and tonight, three days before this year's VJ Day anniversary, Home Ground follows Carol, his only surviving daughter, in her fight to obtain the diary, sold at auction, which she believes is morally hers.
The now fragile diary, written to Corporal Smith's wife and two daughters, also contains poems, and even recipes, written as he slowly starved.
Derek Jacobi tells of the diary's discovery and the revelations hidden in its faded pages.
(First shown on BBC East) (Stereo)

Contributors

Presenter:
Derek Jacobi
Producer:
Dick Meadows

Word panel game, refereed by Bob Holness, with resident team captains Alan Coren and Sandi Toksvig. Tonight's guests are Jilly Cooper, Terry Waite, Dermot Murnaghan and Colin Salmon.
Repeat Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Bob Holness
Unknown:
Alan Coren
Unknown:
Sandi Toksvig
Unknown:
Jilly Cooper
Unknown:
Terry Waite
Unknown:
Dermot Murnaghan
Unknown:
Colin Salmon
Producer:
Helena Taylor
Executive Producer:
Richard L Lewis

In the last in the series searching out global barbecue ideas, chef Ainsley Harriott goes to the spiritual home of the barbie. He samples a three-course meal on a sacred aboriginal site. Back in Sydney, he visits some coin-operated beach barbecues and joins families demonstrating their native roots through the dishes they cook.
See today's choices.
Recipes: Ceefax page
See Food: page 30

Contributors

Presenter/Chef:
Ainsley Harriott
Director:
Ben Warwick
Producer:
Jane Lomas

The first of a two-part crime drama based on Truman Capote's "non-fictional" novel about the murder of a family in America's Midwest, starring Anthony Edwards, Eric Roberts, Sam Neill
Released on parole in Kansas in 1959, small-time crooks Dick Hickock and Perry Smith, plan to rob the house of prosperous, God-fearing rancher Herb Clutter.
When they find no safe at the farm, the enraged duo wake the family and are offered just $40. But the damage has been done, and Hickock and Smith decide that there must be no witnesses to their crime.
The story concludes tomorrow at 9pm.
See today's choices.
The Killing of Dr Greene: page 20

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Contributors

Unknown:
Anthony Edwards
Unknown:
Eric Roberts
Unknown:
Sam Neill
Unknown:
Dick Hickock
Unknown:
Perry Smith
Unknown:
Herb Clutter.
Dick Hickock:
Anthony Edwards
Perry Smith:
Eric Roberts
Alvin Dewey:
Sam Neill
Herb Clutter:
Kevin Tighe
Bonnie Clutter:
Gillian Barber
Nancy Clutter:
Margot Finley
Kenyon Clutter:
Robbie Bowen
Bess Hartmann:
Bethel Leslie
Sadie Truitt:
Gwen Verdon
Harold Nye:
Leo Rossi
Carl Duntz:
Troy Evans
Roy Church:
Don Davis

Open University
12.30am Writing a Report
Advice from professional writers.
1.30 Engineering Mechanics: Vibrations
Illustrating the modelling of vibrations in mechanical engineering.

Summer Nights
2.00 Sporting Chance Collections 2: Good Sport

Languages
4.00 Espana Viva 6-9
Spanish for Beginners.
Spanish Globo 5-10
Spanish Animations.

Open University
6.00 Paris and the New Mathematics
How mathematics became a tool of the State during the French Revolution.
6.25 Ticket to Fly
A look at British Airways' computer systems.

6.50-7.15am Regressing to Quality
Statistics and the production of North Sea pipelines.

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